This is a two-part event. Patrons may choose to attend either the performance or workshop, or both.

We are now offering a buy-1-get-1 ticket free offer! Just enter the code PAMYUA at checkout and enjoy the afternoon with a friend!

In-Person Tickets: 

Performance: $15 adults/$12 member adults/all children $8
Workshop: $5 for non-members/$4 for members

Flushing Town Hall no longer requires visitors or performers to show proof of vaccination against COVID-19; wearing a mask is optional but recommended. For more details, please visit www.flushingtownhall.org/covid-safety 

Flushing Town Hall is proud to present:

Pamyua Family Show & Workshop

Pamyua is Alaska's most famous Inuit band, and showcases Inuit culture through music and dance performance. Their performances and workshops are a platform to share indigenous knowledge and history, suitable to adults and children alike. Their style derives from traditional melodies reinterpreted with contemporary vocalization and instrumentation.  Often described as “Inuit Soul Music,” Pamyua has discovered their own genre.

Fans of global music are in for a treat. After headlining the new Los Angeles Global Music Festival and featuring in the Los Angeles Times, Pamyua is presently touring the Midwest before bringing its unique blend of Inuit soul and tribal funk music first to the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. and then to Flushing Town Hall in Queens, New York City. 

They will lead the audience through two phases:

1:00 PM: Pamyua - Yup'ik Dance and Culture Workshop

Pamyua members Phillip Blanchett, Stephen “Qacung” Blanchett and Aassanaaq “Ossie” Kairaiuak teach Yup'ik drum-dance songs and choreography to participants. This workshop showcases the ancestral, environmental and spiritual motivations common in the Central Yup'ik tradition from Southwestern Alaska, providing an overview of Inuit cultures from the circumpolar North, including Indigenous peoples from Eastern Siberia, Alaska, Canada and Greenland. Participants will be introduced to the Yup'ik language through music and see a glimpse of their performance and ceremony.

2:15 PM: Pamyua - Family Show Come see the live performance of a group hailed as the musical pride of Alaska, as seen on National Geographic and Lincoln Center! Listen to their spellbinding music and be whisked away through America's multicultural landscape through an indigenous lens!



Artist Bio:

The band’s name Pamyua (pronounced: bum-yo-ah) is a Yup’ik word meaning “encore” or “do it again!”

Founding members and brothers, Phillip (Killaq) Blanchett and Stephen (Qacung "Yufrican") Blanchett, grew up in two cultures, with their Inuit mother in a village in Alaska, and visiting their African American father during summers in Detroit, MI.

Additional members include drum-maker Aassanaaq "Ossie" Kairaiuak of Chefornak, Alaska and Karina Moeller, an Inuit musician from Greenland.

The members are proud to represent Indigenous culture.  The group believes unity is possible though music and dance and the members interpret Inuit traditions masterfully with joy and sincerity. The response to this message is tremendous as the group is a symbol of pride for Alaska’s indigenous people and to all who see them perform. 

During the pandemic, Pamyua was commissioned to produce a virtual performance of a "Concert for Kids" by Lincoln Center, NYC. They were also invited to produce a special music video for the Library of Congress' "Homegrown Concert Series" in their Folklife Center. Their performance is now permanently archived in the Library of Congress Archives. In addition, they were commissioned to compose at least 20 songs for LIFE BELOW ZERO: FIRST ALASKANS SERIES, which has already been picked up for a second season on the National Geographic channel, produced by the BBC Los Angeles. Pamyua has performed at the Smithsonian Museums in Washington DC and New York. Pamyua will be featured on the current ABC TV series, ALASKAN DAILY, starring Hilary Swank.

Support them at pamyua.com.

This program is generously sponsored by the Guru Krupa Foundation.